Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
The EJCC Director, Kari Fulton offers her opinion on the Keystone XL pipeline decision and if it really represents a victory for Climate Justice
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The good folk at Loop21.com asked TheEJCC director, Kari Fulton to weigh in on President Obama’s decision to delay a verdict on approving the keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 elections. Check out what she wrote, including the shocking (or maybe not) insider information she found out during the public commenting period. take a read and comment over on loop21.com to give us your opinion.
It was a warm August afternoon when I walked down to the White House. Some of my comrades with the Indigenous Environmental Network were heading down to stand in line and get arrested in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline was proposed to run from Alberta, Canada all the way down to Port Arthur, Texas, making stops in several different states along the way. Proponents of the pipeline touted that it would create over 20,000 new jobs (though this number is widely disputed) and help America lower its dependency on oil from “unfriendly countries.”
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and many of its colleagues have been fighting this pipeline and the original keystone pipeline for years now, calling out the dangers of extracting crude oil and its impact on public drinking water, health and sacred Indigenous land. However, like most touching made-for-TV moments in American History, it took one “Brave White Man” to stop it all. Bill McKibbenenters stage left.
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